Vice President Business Transformation (Hybrid)

The work we do has an impact on millions of lives, and you can be a part of it.

We help protect our customers against life’s uncertainties. Regardless of where you work within the company, you’ll be helping provide protection and peace of mind when our customers need it most.

Protective’s Vice President Business Transformation role will oversee a team responsible for identifying, developing, and testing solutions to complex, high impact problems or focus areas that are identified through corporate planning processes. The team will lead work cross functionally with business, technology, and innovation teams to understand complex business needs, translate those business needs into solutions and proactively identify opportunities for enhancements and automation of existing systems and processes. The Transformation Leader is a capable change leader with a passion for results-driven transformation and innovation. The team will also serve as a Center of Excellence for process improvement and automation.

The Business Transformation Leader will report directly to the Head of Business Enablement, who reports to the COO. The role will work in partnership with and in support of key stakeholders across the enterprise including segment leaders, shared services, corporate staff functions and innovation organization.
Job Responsibilities

  • Identify business opportunities and needs and be a champion of lean, automation, and technology to help modernize and solve business problems.
  • Present views and recommendations on the potential impact and how to apply emerging technology trends to stakeholders and management.
  • Discover, incubate, and accelerate concepts into business proposals and initiatives in a fast-paced environment
  • Lead evolution of technology with a view toward continuous improvement of business processes and data integrity by applying appropriate technology to solve business problems and translate it to actionable business requirements.
  • Supports enterprise-wide projects that incorporate a proactive and innovative solutions to addressing business challenges and achieving organizational goals and objectives.
  • Plan and execute effective change management programs to ensure business acceptance and user effectiveness with the solutions delivered and ensure technology investments align with transformation imperatives.
  • Collaborate with business leaders and IT leaders across the company to drive solutions that enable Protective to achieve it’s medium to long-term strategy.
  • Work in partnership and leverage the Innovation team to identify new opportunities.
  • Work with Executive leaders to gain sponsorship for investment and support of transformative solutions through education and business case development
  • Qualifications

  • 8+ years of proven experience driving results across large programs within the financial industry
  • A track record of progressing new insights, processes, and strategies that add business value, across a matrixed organization
  • Experience in developing strategy and delivering business transformation in areas such as process re-design, change management and technology enabled business change.
  • Experience leading in a cross functional setting with a proven ability to influence key stakeholders
  • Excellent analytical, analysis and problem-solving skills
  • Demonstrated ability to transform and navigate changing needs and priorities, ambiguity and short deadlines
  • Proven ability to communicate effectively, creating presentations, and articulating ideas to stakeholders and management.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication, organizational and interpersonal skills with an ability to adjust communication based on the audience.
  • Prior management experience
  • Protective’s targeted salary range for this position is $143,000 to $181,357. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors, including but not limited to, job location, skills, and experience. The range listed is just one component of Protective’s total compensation package for employees.

    This position also offers additional incentive opportunities through an annual incentive based on individual and Company performance.

    Employee Benefits:

    We aim to protect our employees’ wellbeing through a broad benefits offering. For example, we protect physical wellbeing through health, dental and vision insurance. We protect mental wellbeing through mental health benefits and an employee assistance program. We protect time away from work with a variety of paid time away benefits (e.g., paid time off, paid parental leave, short-term disability, and a cultural observance day). We protect financial wellbeing through contributions to healthcare accounts, a pension plan, and a 401(k) plan with Company matching. All employees are encouraged to protect their overall wellbeing by engaging in ProHealth Rewards, Protective’s platform to improve wellbeing while earning cash rewards.

    Eligibility for certain benefits may vary by position in accordance with the terms of the Company’s benefit plans.

    Diversity and Inclusion:

    At Protective, we are committed to providing an inclusive culture where all employees are able to fully contribute and thrive. Our goal is to grow and develop our people, attract diverse talent and support strong, diverse communities.

    We support diversity, equity, and inclusion by working to develop a culture of inclusion and belonging led by leaders who develop potential and embrace unique skills and abilities. Our aim is to create an equitable and accountable environment for all leaders and employees that will drive performance and impact business strategy. In this way, we can increase overall diversity for leadership roles and pipelines of talent by maturing our hiring practices, robust development opportunities and focus on retention of key talent.

    We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to being inclusive and attracting, retaining, and growing the talents of a diverse and inclusive workforce.

    Job Category
    Computer and IT
    Job Type
    unspecified
    Salary
    USD 143,000.00 - 181,357.00 per year
    Country
    United States
    City
    Birmingham
    Career Level
    unspecified
    Company
    Protective
    JOB SOURCE
    https://protective.eightfold.ai/careers/job?pid=15609178&domain=protective.com